The Bookworm Beat 4-2-15 — the “choking on my own bile” edition and open thread

This morning, I woke up so angry about the Iran agreement that Obama has been pushing and about the faked RFRA outrage that I couldn’t even write. Every time I sat down at the computer, I choked on my own bile and my brain froze. I felt like a computer suffering from an electric surge. I medicated myself with a junk novel and some chocolate, and am finally feeling stable enough to write without exploding.

I’ve already said what I have to say about Obama and Iran, and about RFRA, so I’ll be brief. Obama is not dumb and he’s not just a Leftist ideologue. He is a man with a ferocious feral intelligence and he is genuinely evil. Regarding RFRA, it is not Jim Crow. What made Jim Crow so bad was that it was government action. The whole point of RFRA is that it’s supposed to protect individuals from government action. No one gets that; no one’s explaining it; if someone explained it, no one would listen; and Leftists are fascists at heart.

And now on to other things, to which I’ll link with brevity. Now that I’ve assuaged my anger a little bit with dime store romance, I have to go pick up my tax returns from my accountant, which will undoubtedly inflame me all over again. Here’s a video of me (I’m the baby):

You know how you know you’re a smart person? Thomas Sowell, in his inimitable way, says what you’ve been saying all along, including the bit about the apocalyptic mullahs who are not like the cold-headed Soviets. The latter feared mutually assured destruction; the former embrace it.

A British man and a German man envision a moral world 100 years from now. It’s like Huxley’s Brave New World, only infinitely worse, with man a slave to robots and vegetables.

Daniel Greenfield (aka Sultan Knish) analyzes the Left’s culture war, which is not against “culture” per se, but is a direct attack on America from the inside. He also believes that individual Americans, by clinging ferociously to their individuality and their values, can reclaim what we have lost, although it will be neither a swift nor an easy battle.

Passover is coming up soon, and I’ll publishing my annual Passover post about God, Moses, Pharaoh, and the nature of tyranny. Meanwhile, Robert Avrech will help you understand why, in this year’s post, Pharaoh has Obama’s face.

Even in awful times, there are funny things. One high school senior decided to turn the table on Duke University for having rejected her. At many stages in my life, I would have loved to have sent a letter like this one, but I lacked both the wit and the courage:

And now that you’ve had a good laugh, I invite you to join me again in the land of tears and anger:

He emphasizes as he does in his book that the identity of the English speaking people is cultural not racial, national or ethic. Anyone can join simply by taking up the beliefs of individual liberties and freedom with Magna Carta, symbol of freedom under the law.

Okay, one sad part. Does anyone really thing the American Bar Association would seek to commemorate Magna Carta today like it did 58 years ago?

ymarsakar

Take it from me, hatred is a weapon that burns itself along with its user to ash without a fuel source or target. If you have no target to use it on, better put it back in the matter antimatter containment storage unit. Hate, true hate, requires the absolute destruction of a target. People think hate is about internet trolls having fun on the net. That’s trolling, that’s not true hatred. True hate cannot accept anything but the absolute destruction of the target, even if that means destroying the world to do so. Remember that.

Seeing evil also opens up new ways of viewing people and the world. Normally education or IQ was supposed to do that, but there are things smart people are blind to while dumb people can still recognize, or vice a versa. The importance rests in getting a broader, more objective viewpoint of humanity, rather than merely relying on Experts or Authorities, half of whom are evil to boot.

Lee Also

When ever someone is getting overly hysterical, my cynical sister asks, “Cui bono?” She has gotten me thinking more and more now about than when the hysterical mobs bray. Sultan Knish got me thinking about the Catholic priest scandal, and something that bothered me at the height of that.

When I was a kid, my mom taught in pretty much every Catholic school in the area, and so I knew a LOT of kids who served as altar boys. And I knew the priests, though not really all that well — they were my mom’s coworker, basically. And when I was hearing about all those horror stories, and the stats that people were coming up with, I just kept rifling through my memory. If the degree to which the alleged pedophilia was happening was indeed happening, at LEAST one of the priests with whom my mom work would have to have been a predator. But none had the “creep factor” that the regular school teachers (the ones in the school system I went to from K through 12) who later turned out to be pedophiles/hebephiles had. Of course, that doesn’t mean a whole lot…

The thing is, statistically, it turned out that the RATE of pedophilia/hebephilia among Catholic priests was: A) About the same as among protestant clergy; B) Even so, still much LOWER than among the general adult male population; and C) Much, much, much lower than headlines would have had us believe. It also turns out that this started during the height of the “recovered memory” craze, which has since been not so much “debunked” as it has been given less credence. And MANY of the accusations were brought about as a result of a “recovered memory.” And the rate statistics doesn’t discount for that. So, odds are, the ACTUAL rate was even lower still.

Well, thanks to Sultan Knish, I am thinking that was just a small salvo in the general culture war; one designed to help destroy religion.

Now, please note: I am NOT saying that no priest ever molested any child. It happened. And I am NOT trying to diminish the horror — it is bad enough for such a nightmare to happen to someone, but to have the predator be someone who is SUPPOSED to be serving God is an unimaginable betrayal. However…

I do believe that the way it was played out, in the media and in the courts, was designed primarily to destroy religion.You still get people making terrible jokes about Catholic priests. (BTW, the Catholic church has instituted a policy that schools, religious institutions, and other organizations that interact with children would do well to emulate — it helps protect the child, and it helps prevent any false accusations. Nevertheless, you still get people being nasty about Catholic priests.

ymarsakar

You probably weren’t here when I stated that the Left was known to have infiltrated several thousand agents into the Catholic seminary system, during the 1930s, who later turned out as expected.

Leftist psychologists were testing their techniques of mind control on subjects using implanted memories, and the lawyers were benefiting via a side deal from these lawsuits that destroyed families. They are all in it together, once you see the strings being pulled.

Check School of Darkness and interviews by Bella Dodd, when she converted from Marxist agent to Catholic believer.

ymarsakar

Notice how Sultan brings up the “zombie” thing again, like I do often times? It’s not because we of the Leftist knowledge club compare notes and trade each other our secrets. It’s more like if we know the correct answer, our methodologies will ultimately be very similar as well. It’s indisputable and not something we argue about. They are zombies, it is a proof by demonstration of itself. A is A. Is there a triangle with 4 sides? Is there a triangle with 2 sides? By advent of adjudicated reasoning and deduction, the Left has to be a certain number of things given that they are lacking what makes the rest of us human.

Servo1969

So many people are going to die.

ymarsakar

Check the flu epidemics and the rate of children casualties. I’ve detected the expansion of a new viral combination. One much stronger than expected.

Libby_CO

The way the news today swerves from one flood-the-zone story to the next is overwhelming and exhausting – obviously designed to numb and distract from the truly outrageous things that are happening.

Just string a couple of items from this week together and it paints quite a picture:
*Iran is amassing troops on Israel’s border
*Iran says Israel’s destruction is “non-negotiable”
*At least 147 Christians have been killed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab at a Kenya university they raided this morning
*Obama campaign folks, including Axelrod, assisted the Muslim candidate in getting elected president in Nigeria (where Boko Haram is slaughtering Christians)
*Obama’s former SoS was running her own secret intelligence shop, and may have even hired mercenaries to do gawd-knows-what on her behalf in Libya in 2011…was this or without Obama’s knowledge (both options are scary)
*Judicial Watch uncovered DHS’s secret new “Famiy Reunification” refugee program that funds the transport and settlement for the families of last year’s illegal border crossers from Central America

I’m sure there’s more, but it’s hard to find the real news amongst the inescapable coverage of Indiana outrage and the German co-pilot.

Oh yeah, one more story:
*Israeli company Vaxil BioTherapeutics’s ImMucin vaccine blocks 90% of cancer types from coming back

I suppose that last story is ignored by the “drive-by media” because Israel is considered “evil” and the vaccine will be destroyed when Iran uses its US-approved nukes to wipe it off the map. I agree with you, Book, Obama is evil.

ymarsakar

Hussein isn’t even the tip of the spear on the Left’s true power.

MikeDevx

Yes,Obama is evil, and his hatred for Israel and Netanyahu is unfortunately right in line with Democrat policy. But his bizarre love affair with Iran is strange even by Democrat standards. The Democrat party isn’t pushing him on this; he’s doing it all on his own. Well, him and Valerie Jarrett.

On the RFRA, politically I’m still on the fence because of the unusual inclusion of private party for-profits in the legalese. Of the 32 states with RFRA laws and court decisions mandating RFRA, only one other currently has that private party for-profit language. To me it seems trivial, but if it truly were trivial, why include it in the first place? So I remain in information-gathering mode.

But I did donate $20 to Memories Pizza, who have suffered assault and harm by the lieftist bigots purely for responding to a reporter’s question with an OPINION about not wanting to cater pizza to a gay wedding. Death threats and harassment, internet assault and web-site shutdown. They are deeply frightened now, and they have had to shut down their business.

I gave em $20 bucks, because what has been done to them is terrifying and unconscionable, and must be fought. If you want to support them with a little greenery yourself, go to:http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza

Mike Devx: That is an absolutely spot-on point about Obama’s solo outing regarding Iran. Somehow it ties in with the point Wolf Howling made the other day, which is that Obama has done a 180 from his stated position with regard to Iran back in 2012, yet he’s made no effort whatsoever to explain or sell this change to the American people. Entirely on his own, he’s leaving his party, leaving his own stated “principles,” and handing nuclear weapons to an apocalyptic death cult that weekly demands our death, and has made another nation’s destruction a non-negotiable point in this whole nuclear negotiation.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, so I can’t even begin to explain why Obama’s doing what he’s doing. I keep coming back to the word “evil,” because it’s the only thing that seems to explain perfectly what’s going on.

I have to wonder whether Congress will impose sanctions to block Obama’s actions and, if it does, whether Obama will blatantly disregard those sanctions. If he does, will Congress have the courage to stare down the first half-white president or will it bow to his will, irrevocably changing our country into a tyranny — and, presumably, a country that’s a nice matched set with Iran.

And good for you for giving $20 to to pizza place. You’re right that, even if you don’t agree with their stand, it’s a stand that they’re entitled to take in a free nation, and that they shouldn’t be driven into poverty for doing so.

ymarsakar

Are you somehow under the impression that Jimmy Carter and the Democrats, wanted to get rid of Khomeini rather than being allies of Islamic Jihad there?

Hussein ain’t new, except to the fledglings.

and, presumably, a country that’s a nice matched set with Iran.

It won’t be the first country America betrayed into the shackles of slavery and ash, and it won’t be the last.

If he does, will Congress have the courage to stare down the first half-white president or will it bow to his will

That depends on whether the blackmail material gathered concerning Congress’ numerous sexual trips and escapades, including underaged girls and boys, comes to light in favor of the Leftist alliance or not. Or did people think their democracy worked on conscience and voting, rather than blackmail and influence? Crazy stuff in politics can be explained by stupidity, ambition, and greed often times. And yet, people have failed to do so, for this Congress and the last. I detect the hint of a different Hand working here. As usual, I am not privy to the details of the operation for not having the black boot of PillowC’s blackmail list to reference.

ymarsakar

The way I send a message is by smashing them in the face long enough that they stop emitting their polluted miasma in my presence.

Then again, that’s probably just me.

Wolf Howling

That article on morality 100 years in the future was fascinating. It was state acceptable ethics, enforced by the police power of the state. That is not morality, it’s compulsion. The progressive authors seem to be confused about the nature of morality — to know right from wrong — and the “brave new world” they envision, one sans religion, where the left’s laws now define what is lawfully acceptable to do and think. Seems they tried that several times in the 20th century and it didn’t work out so well.

ymarsakar

The funny thing is, people thought Shadowrun was a science fiction fantasy vision of the future. To me, that wasn’t the future, that was present day Earth. Ironic.

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